SPOTLIGHT

United Nations Disarmament Fellowship Programme Opens 2017 Session in Geneva

Certified true copy of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has been issued

Depositary Notification

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be open for signature on 20 September

UN Secretary-General’s Message to the Nagasaki Peace Ceremony

Remarks by High Representative Nakamitsu – The Imperatives for Disarmament in the 21st Century to Ninth Conference of Mayors for Peace

UN Secretary-General’s Message to the Hiroshima Peace Ceremony

Fiji hosts regional workshop to promote the universalization of the Biological Weapons Convention in the Pacific

UNODA publishes Biological Weapons Convention information brochure with financial assistance from EU

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Website for the UN Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons

Disarmament Education

UN Report on Military Expenditures

UNODA UPDATE

72nd Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Remembering and Looking Towards the Future

Fiji hosts regional workshop to promote the universalization of the Biological Weapons Convention in the Pacific

Assistance to Mauritania in drafting of the initial report on Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)

UNODA intern discovers personal connection to the history of disarmament

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for the Pacific Alliance States and Brazil

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Informal Meeting of the General Assembly to Mark the Observance of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, Wed., 30 August 3-6pm

For NGOs: UN General Assembly High-level Plenary Meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

For Member States: New deadlines and procedures for the processing of the reports of the Secretary-General on disarmament issues

EVENTS

July 31 - September 15, 2017

Conference on Disarmament Part III

Geneva, Switzerland

August 21 - September 1, 2017

CTBTO Working Group B, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

September 4 - 6, 2017

Seventh Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)

Geneva

September 11 - 15, 2017

IAEA Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

September 11 - 15, 2017

Third Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Geneva

September 18 - 22, 2017

IAEA General Conference

Vienna, Austria

September 28 - November 2, 2017

General Assembly, First Committee, Seventy-second session

New York

October 2 - 5, 2017

CTBTO Advisory Group, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

October 23 - 25, 2017

CTBTO: Working Group A, 52nd session

Vienna

November 6 - 8, 2017

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission, 49th session

Vienna, Austria